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Environmental Board reviews water treatments
OFF TO A GREAT START
BY RIKKI N. MASSAND
The Garden City “A” Swim Team continued its winning ways with a 266-61 point meet against Great Neck. Above, swimmers from the girls junior team were there to cheer on their teammates. See page 46
Nursery School calls for 1-year extension BY RIKKI N. MASSAND
At the Garden City Board of Trustees meeting on Thursday evening, June 20, concerned parents asked for a one-year extension for Cathedral Nursery School, which operates at the cottages behind St. Paul’s. The current agreement between the school and village has an expiration date of June 30, 2020, after which the school may no longer utilize the cottages and is barred from seeking another village-owned facility for its operation. But according to school officials, finding a new location in Garden City has proven unfeasible.
After the school’s administration listened to the Board’s comments to the room full of parents, the school told The Garden City News that the Board mis-represented the last 15 years of village-school communications as one-year license agreements as the norm. Instead, the school says, in mid-2018 that stipulation, which they hesitated to agree to, was forced upon them.
2018 letter from Mayor
In an interview on Monday July 8, Cathy Sammon, administrator for Cathedral Nursery School, explained that in March of 2018 the school received a letter (certi-
The all-volunteer Garden City Environmental Advisory Board has been scrutinizing the treatment plans for the contaminant 1,4 dioxane in Garden City’s water. At the June 5th meeting of the EAB, Superintendent of Public Works and Deputy Village Administrator Joseph DiFrancisco, spoke about the village’s pilot program for 1,4 dioxane treatment involving a new method of removing 1,4 dioxane from water: UV light and peroxide to treat the water and remove the contaminants from the water, which then using GAC (granulated carbon filters) to then remove the peroxide from the water supply. DiFrancisco explained the village’s engagement with legal consultants Langan Engineering & Environmental Services, Inc., considered “an expert in the field in regards to emerging contaminants.”
No state mandated limits
fied mail) from then-Mayor Brian C. Daughney. “In the contents of Mayor Daughney’s letter, he stated we should be looking sooner rather than later for alternative space. At the time of that letter (February 2018) we started to look for locations. The letter was signed by Mayor Daughney and not the full Board of Trustees, and it was addressed to our (CNS) board of directors,” Sammon said. Both Sammon and the Cathedral Nursery School Director Diane Cina were present at the Board of Trustees June 20 meeting, when over 75 residents packed the board room, six days after the nursery
“There has been 1,4 dioxane detected in the village’s water supply, although to date there are no state-mandated limits for contaminant levels as well as no required testings and state-approved treatments. Other villages/ water districts have piloted programs as they piloted different treatment systems....We have anticipated the state regulations for over six months now, maybe it’s still on the governor’s desk. The village has done additional water sampling that Langan’s requested from us, and we just received results back from that, and our water consultants are submitting a summary with their report including a plan to go forward, including which village wells to address first and what type of filtration system we are going to install. The draft plan has not been shared yet, and eventually we would formalize a plan to address emerging contaminants in the water,” he said. Village Trustee Stephen Makrinos, the new chairman of the Environmental Advisory Board, asked DiFrancisco about state funds for treatments or testing. DiFranciso replied that there would be minimal impact for the high
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